Patches of stem-cell-derived heart muscle improve damaged hearts.

As research on mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) advances, new fields of application have emerged; however, their application in orthopedics remains one of the most established and clinically valuable ...

If the pluripotent stem cells can be turned into precursors to egg and sperm cells, the feat could potentially be a big deal for giant panda conservation.

Human blood stem cells have been made in a laboratory for the first time, which could significantly improve how we treat certain types of cancer. The lab-grown cells have so far only been tested ...

The move to use AI to create scientific illustrations or diagrams is troubling because it undermines the accuracy and trust among the scientific community and wider public that the work going into ...

A published scientific paper featured a wildly incorrect diagram of a rat penis, generated by AI image generator Midjourney.

The AI-generated rat diagram depicts a rat (helpfully and correctly labeled) whose upper body is labeled as “senctolic stem cells.” What appears to be a very large rat penis is labeled ...

7 medical breakthroughs that gave us hope in 2023 From gene therapy to Alzheimer’s treatment, predicting pancreatic cancer to pioneering reproduction methods, there were many promising ...

H. Summary diagram of Drosophila female germ cell generational cycle showing two highly potent stem cell chromatin states (pink) beginning with the GSC or zygote and their downstream developmental ...

Induced pluripotent stem cells show great promise for age-related macular degeneration, as revealed by recent research published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Recent technological progress has facilitated the study of how embryos develop, how embryonic cells transition between different states, how adult stem cells are maintained and differentiate, at ...

In 2016, the Food and Drug Administration brought to the public’s attention a growing issue across the nation— experimental stem cell clinics.